Charcuterie
I do a lot of meat curing, and make all kinds of fresh sausages, so I thought I’d compile all my sausage and cured meat recipes here to make it easy for someone to browse through all of them.
All the recipes are still available on the Wild Game Recipes page, but there they are organized by animal. Here they are organized by type, i.e., fresh sausages, salami, cured meats, confit, etc.
METHODS
- How to Make Sausages using a Bird’s Neck
- General Sausage-Making Instructions (Hosted on Simply Recipes)
- Advanced Sausage-Making Tips and Techniques
- My personal favorite Charcuterie, Sausage and Salami-Making Books
FRESH SAUSAGES
- Spanish Longaniza sausage, made with goat, lamb or antelope
- Wild Boar Mexican Chorizo
- A traditional Greek Loukaniko, with lamb and pork or wild boar, venison or antelope
- Wild Boar (or pork) sausages, Greek Islands style
- Greek Lamb Sausage, Thessaly style – you can sub in antelope, goat or venison
- Classic Toulouse-style Sausages, using duck, goose or pork
- Duck or Goose Sausages, Hunter’s style
- Smoked Canada Goose Sausage - you could use any wild or domestic duck or goose here
- Polish Duck Sausages
- Duck or Goose Giblet Sausages with Sage
- Herbed Wild Boar Sausages
- Pheasant Sausages with Oregano and Garlic
- Sanguinaccio, Boudin Noir, Morcilla, Blood Sausages (pork, venison, beef or wild boar)
- Mazzafegati, Italian pork (or wild boar) and liver sausages
- Venison Sausages, flavored with Bay Leaves and Garlic
- Summertime Venison Sausages with Basil, Lemon and Garlic
- Hmong Sausages with Wild Boar, an Asian Sausage with Ginger, Garlic and Fresh Herbs
SALAMI
- Dry-Cured Wild Boar Salami, California style
CURED MEATS
- Duck or Goose ‘prosciutto’
- Duck Jerky, flavored with thyme, garlic, allspice and porcini
- Basic Unsmoked Bacon, made without nitrates
- Chinese-style, Sichuan Bacon
- Mocetta, a Northen Italian Goat Ham
- Lardo, or Italian Cured Back Fat
- Lonzino, or Air-Cured Boar or Pork Loin
- Corned Venison (Antelope, Deer, Moose, Elk, etc.)
CONFIT, ETC
- Duck or Goose Rillettes
- Rillettes of Smoked Shad, Trout or Mackerel
- Coppa di Testa, Brawn, or Head Cheese (for pork or wild boar)
- Wild Duck or Goose Terrine
- Making confit with pheasants, or grouse, partridges or quail
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